LABIATE 387 



five-nerved, reticulate, rugose, deep green and scabrously hairy above, 

 paler beneath, punctate and hairy on the nerves. 



Nepeta tuberosa, L. 



Hypocotyl 3-16 mm. long, about 1 mm. thick, soft and herbaceous, 

 densely pubescent. 



Cotyledons petiolate, triangular or rotund, emarginate, truncate 

 at the base or subauricled, pale green, densely pubescent and sub- 

 glandular on both surfaces, as is the terete petiole. 



Stem erect, herbaceous, pale green or suffused with red, obtusely 

 quadrangular, densely pubescent and subglandular ; internodes vari- 

 able in length according to cultivation. 



Leaves cauline. 



First pair rotund-cordate, obtuse, subcrenate, pemiinerved, 

 rugose, densely pubescent on both surfaces and subglandular, herb- 

 aceous and soft in texture ; petiole terete, channelled above, densely 

 pubescent and subglandular. 



Second pair more deeply cordate at the base, and more deeply 

 crenate. 



Lallemantia peltata, Fiscli. et Mey. 



Fruit consisting of four dorsally compressed, triangular nutlets. 



Seed conforming to the shape of the nutlet, flattened, about 1- 

 1-5 mm. long, exalbuminous ; testa membranous ; hilum incon- 

 spicuous. 



Embryo straight, colourless, filling the seed ; cotyledons broadly 

 oblong or obovate, obtuse, entire, rather unequal, lying face to face ; 

 one concavo-convex, the other biconvex, lying the broad way of the 

 seed ; radicle short, terete, obtuse. 



Lallemantia canescens, Fisch. et Mey. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, 1'2-1'G cm. long, light green or 

 colourless. 



Cotyledons suborbicular, auricled or cordate at the base, emargi- 

 nate, glabrous, pinnatinerved as in the leaves ; petioles long. 



Stem erect, square, glabrous ; 1st internode 5-6 mm. long ; 2nd 

 shorter. 



First leaves simple, opposite, one growing faster than another, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, exstipulate, glabrous, green, pinnati- 

 nerved ; petioles long. 



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